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Anywhere other than another SEC West team. That's just wrong man...if he would've went back to the Big 10, I don't think many would have a problem with him. Going to Bama though is crap.
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Saban doesn't owe LSU anything. You guys act like he was born and bred in La. He wasn't born down there, he never attended school there or anything else. It was a job for him...just like Alabama is a job for him. He turned LSU from the laughingstock of the SEC in the 90's to a true elite program, and won 3 championships in five seasons there. He also left behind the talent that would win two more titles for you. He didn't need anyone's permission to go to Alabama. He left the NFL when he realized he hated it, and the Alabama job was open. What was he supposed to do? Turn down 32 million and a chance to coach at one of the best college programs in the nation just as to not upset his former employer? Please, none of you would do that professionally...so by criticizing him, you are just being hypocritical. If you were miserable at a job, and you got offered a huge contract at a company that was the rival of one of your former employers, you wouldn't turn it down just so you wouldn't upset your old bosses, now would you? I don't hear UF fans hating on Spurrier for doing the exact same thing--going to the NFL for a couple of seasons--and then taking a job at an SEC division rival. Tubberville did the same thing switching from OM to AU. Nutt just did the same going from Arky to OM, even though he was forced out. Just business baby, but nobody cries about any of those situations like LSU fans do. Man up...move on.

There are huge huge differences. Saban came after LSU right from the get go as soon as he took the Alabama job. He took all the credit for LSU's Sugar Bowl win. He offered our S & C coach, our OC and our OL coach more money than they make at LSU. Then he went after several of our commitments in recruiting telling them that he made LSU. He made the coonass comment trying to be funny. This is not even close to the same ball game. Saban made it personal when he went after LSU.